Open thread: Sunday morning talking heads

posted at 8:01 am on July 14, 2013 by Allahpundit

It’s a big bag of blah on the Sunday shows this morning unless the Zimmerman jury has delivered its verdict. (They’re still deliberating as I write this on Saturday.) “Meet the Press” has Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell on to bicker about the filibuster, “Fox News Sunday” has Steve King and Mike McCaul to describe the state of play in the House on immigration, and “State of the Union” has Rick Perry to celebrate Texas’s new ban on late-term abortions and chat about 2016. All of that gets bumped to later in the hour if there’s Zimmerman fallout. Verdict or no, the panel discussions should be filled with trial blather, most of which will be perfectly predictable along partisan lines and therefore simultaneously boring and enraging.

Because there was a verdict, the opportunity to hear rising star Tom Cotton discuss how the immigration bill is a disaster and potentially kick off his race for Senate is gone. He’s been bumped in favor of Al eff-off Sharpton.

Surely they will discuss the unfairly fired police chief, the manipulation of video/audio by the TV media, the continued use of Trayvon’s 12 yr old photo by print media, the Race Baiter-In-Chief, the IT whistle-blower at the prosecutor’s office, etc…

Hat tip to the jury who saw beyond the grandest attempted railroading of a defendant in modern history…

How about we put Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell in a locked room with a pair of nail studded baseball bats and just let those two dinosaurs beat each other to a pulp, so we can finally be rid of both of them?

How about we put Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell in a locked room with a pair of nail studded baseball bats and just let those two dinosaurs beat each other to a pulp, so we can finally be rid of both of them?

pilamaye on July 14, 2013 at 8:27 AM

Can we lock Schumer in with them? And make sure that his baseball bat is made of Nerf?

As Allah indicated, this may have all changed due to the acquital of the poster boy for white racism, G Zimm. Putting that aside, how did the media intend to carry water for the DNC today? Let’s have a gander:

Verdict or no, the panel discussions should be filled with trial blather, most of which will be perfectly predictable along partisan lines and therefore simultaneously boring and enraging.

You mean partisan blather like what O’Mara, a Democrat, had to say about the MSM’s misconduct and the racial railroading of his client by the BGI and the libs? That kind of partisan? And the NAACP calling for the Feds to go after Zimmerman? That kind of partisanship?

The talking head libs on CNN, MSNBC, and HLN are still saying Zimmerman is guilty and should have been convicted. One clown said Michael Vick got two years for killing dogs and Zimmermna got nothing for killing a black child. They are still stirring up racial tensions. And Parks essentially called O’Mara a racist (“but I’m not calling him a racist”, wink-wink) for showing the jury a photo of a not-so-sweet-and-innocent looking Trayvon Martin during closing arguments, making him look like some kind of black street thug, or something.

I’m trying to find the equivalent “partisanship” on the other side. I haven’t been able to find any on FOXnews. Perhaps you can help. I must be looking in the wrong places.

But yeah, the partisanship and lack of objectivity must obviously on its face be pretty evenly divided of this, or something, right?

One of the things I find most disturbing, is that even today the media are showing pictures of a pre-adolescent Martin instead of the one that assaulted Zimmerman. The “stars” are tweeting about “killing a child” as if he was a baby who should have been in a crib. The manipulation is working, or at least people are paying lipservice to “correctness”.

These same libs foster this by celebrating gangstas and minimizing the importance of a cohesive home, hard work in school and on the job. It is the liberal culture that is responsible for this mess and for the plight of some who seem to believe that good things must come free. Until our society celebrates quotidien academic achievement in the same way it gushes over gangstas, things will deteriorate further

How about we put Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell in a locked room with a pair of nail studded baseball bats and just let those two dinosaurs beat each other to a pulp, so we can finally be rid of both of them?

“This is a message to the black community that black lives are devalued… that much of the problems from the past still exist when it comes to looking at people of a another race… etc.” — lib talking head panelist on CNN.

Now witness the Right get rolled once more as the Left turns the Zimmerman defeat to victory by seizing and restoring the Narrative. Happens every time.

The Right is only interested in peace and reconciliation after these protracted public trials (“trials” of all kinds); but the Left, savage survivalists, sees defeat as opportunity to expand and strengthen their mob and its social power. And they will.

We win for now, but in the long run we lose. Because we never learn.

If we’d really taken the pledge “I am Breitbart” seriously, we’d know this, and be ready. We’d go out right after the verdict in numbers and with a unified offensive message about the Left. We wouldn’t let them back on their feet. We’d kick them in the gut while they writhed on the ground.

One of the things I find most disturbing, is that even today…
clnurnberg on July 14, 2013 at 9:51 AM

“even” today? They will do this today, tomorrow and every day thereafter. It’s what they always do. This is the totally predictable aftermath of all these events. The Left and media will swarm this issue and not let it rest. And they will get no challenge from anybody on the Right.

They need to make sure they NEVER lose again. It’s the way they think and act. They’re compulsive, relentless, shameless and vicious. These are not members of a society but viral agents of destruction and domination.

We should have know this and been ready. But we’re deluded idiots who insistently believe the Left will “learn their lesson” and “respect that the system has spoken.” Will our idiocy never end?

Glad the verdict is over, but my guess is this is ALL we’re going to hear about on every channel for at least the next month, because this is what the media drools for, they don’t care about the real issues facing our country. They want to slobber all over Al Sharpton, the great philosopher and scholar. They’re just sickening and pathetic to watch and the reason I have only 3-4 channels I actually watch and if there were a cable package where you could never have NBC, CBS, ABC on them, that’s what I would buy.

“Forget the over-zealous prosecutors and the repellent state attorney Angela Corey (who should be immediately disbarred or, my wife said sarcastically, elevated to director of Homeland Security) and even the unfortunate Trayvon Martin family (although it is certainly hard to forget them — they have our profound sympathies), the true loser at the Zimmerman trial was Barack Obama.

By injecting himself in a minor Florida criminal case by implying Martin could be his son, the president of the United States — a onetime law lecturer, of all things — disgraced himself and his office, made a mockery of our legal system and exacerbated racial tensions in our country, making them worse than they have been in years.

This is the work of a reactionary, someone who consciously/unconsciously wants to push our nation back to the 1950s.

It is also the work of a narcissist who thinks of himself first, of his image, not of black, white or any other kind of people. It’s no accident that race relations in our country have gone backwards during his stewardship.

Congratulations to the jury for not acceding to this tremendous pressure and delivering the only conceivable honest verdict. This case should never have been brought to trial. It was, quite literally, the first American Stalinist “show trial.” There was, virtually, no evidence to convict George Zimmerman. It was a great day for justice that this travesty was finally brought to a halt.

We all know Al Sharpton, the execrable race baiter of Tawana Brawley and Crown Heights, agitated publicly for this trial more than anyone else. But he most likely would not have succeeded had it not been for Obama’s tacit support. As far as I know this is unprecedented in our history (a president involving himself in a trial of this nature)…”

And newscasters told the news, said good night, and that was it. They didn’t try to divide the country over an issue, they didn’t slobber over their party’s candidates, they didn’t say whether something was right or wrong, they read a story of what happened and then they shut up.

Probably not, as most people refuse to see the media as partisan. Even Fox was showing the 12 year old Martin, the left’s little boy and I find it appalling.

I also find it appalling that the verdict reportedly puts a low value on black lives, the low value on life is assigned by the people who chapen their own lives, by gang membership, disregard for education and a lifestyle that guarantees failure for all but the rappers with idiotic stage names

“Tristan Breaux, president of the Norfok chapter of the NAACP, is being asked to step down because of a mildly critical remark about Trayvon Martin he left on his personal Facebook page.

The Facebook entry was Friday, before the Zimmerman verdict of not guilty was delivered.

“I wonder why it is that we are always willing to say someone who clearly had a shaky past, was the victim,” Breaux asked in the Facebook post, referring to Trayvon Martin.

The post went on to ask if people are blinded to why Trayvon was staying with his dad and why he wasn’t at home at at time of the shooting.

Mr. Breaux’s major sin appears to be that his individualism embarrassed his fellow Norfolk NAACP members with other African Americans around the country. By their lights, Mr. Breaux may, indeed, have committed a serious enough breach to deserve removal, or forced resignation. But stepping back and viewing his comments in context, the agitation for Breaux’s scalp says a lot more about his detractors than it does one, thoughtful rebel…”

“Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz says the prosecutors in the George Zimmerman murder trial should be charged with “prosecutorial misconduct” for suggesting the defendant planned the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin.

“That is something no prosecutor should be allowed to get away with … to make up a story from whole cloth,” Dershowitz told “The Steve Malzberg Show” on Newsmax TV.

“These prosecutors should be disbarred. They have acted absolutely irresponsibly in an utterly un-American fashion…”

“MSNBC’s reaction to the Zimmerman verdict was an editorial vomit. The network chose Al Sharpton and Melissa Harris-Perry to be among its commentators. Both predictably injected race into the discussion. It’s the only card in either one’s deck.

Al Sharpton’s presence as a commentator is particularly galling. Sharpton operates as part shakedown artist, part con man, and part Hizballah-lite through his National Action Network. He was no bystander in the Martin case. He was among the first to turn the tragedy into a phony referendum on race relations. He is regularly among the first to deploy the terroristic slogan “No Justice, No Peace” when things aren’t going his way. Or when he believes a credible threat of violence is useful to him.

Al Sharpton regularly denounces America as a racist country. But only in “racist” America could Sharpton build a lucrative and influential career in national media on anti-Semitism, a horrendous hoax, lies, smears and a riot that resulted in the deaths of innocent people…”

As Ed said last night, the prosecution over-charged when they went for murder. This was at most a manslaughter case. The murder charge was clearly added because of political pressure. By doing so, they likely tanked their own case.

Sometime tomorrow morning, the Attorney General of the United States will publish a federal indictment of George Zimmerman for all manner of federal crimes stemming from his wanton racist denial of Trayvon’s civil right to be a street punk…among other charges.

Al Sharpton [the Towana Brawley guy] who led the attack on a store which resulted in the murder of some Yid…not important…since the dead Yid was obviously exploiting blacks…that same Al Sharpton is demanding a federal indictment…along with a host of other usual suspects.

You see…justice does not mean justice in the legal sense anymore…justice means vengeance, revenge, sticking it to The Man.

Obama will probably announce tomorrow that a special civil rights commission has been established, headed up by Sharpton to seek out and identify all who were involved in this obvious travesty of having a jury find a defendant not guilty of trumped up charges…

Coulda sworn the Left proclaimed in January 2009 that since we elected Obama we were now a post-racial nation…

And newscasters told the news, said good night, and that was it. They didn’t try to divide the country over an issue, they didn’t slobber over their party’s candidates, they didn’t say whether something was right or wrong, they read a story of what happened and then they shut up.

scalleywag on July 14, 2013 at 10:43 AM

Newscaster have always tried to sway the story to affect an agenda. It’s what they do.

As Ed said last night, the prosecution over-charged when they went for murder. This was at most a manslaughter case. The murder charge was clearly added because of political pressure. By doing so, they likely tanked their own case.

Illinidiva on July 14, 2013 at 11:10 AM

The prosecution overcharged in bringing any charges at all.

This case should have never gone to trial. It was a clear cut case of self defense. There was no evidence that it was anything but that. O’Mara, Zimmerman’s attorney, a Democrat who has been defending black youths for 30 years, said that if Zimmerman was black there would have been no trial. He unequivocally stated the only reason there was a trial was because of the way the national media reported what happened after Martin’s family got Benjamin Crump (and the black grievance industry) involved to publicize it, promote it, and protest it as a case of racial (read racist) injustice.

The prosecution had no case for any charges. In the end they got so desperate they tried to charge Zimmerman with 3rd degree murder due to child abuse. A judge sympathetic to the prosecution rejected that desperate tactic.

If the evidence on Martin’s cell phone had seen the light of day much sooner and if the judge held a hearing about it the prosecution might have had to drop their charges. GZ was found not guilty even without that evidence.

The state had nothing but speculation about how this or that might have, could have, maybe happened. And that maybe GZ lied about something, because there were minor inconsistencies in his freely given five or six interviews and statements about what happened.

That is not how the state is supposed to arrest, charge, and prosecute someone. The physical evidence and most of the testimony, even from the state’s own witnesses, supported GZ’s version of events. The Sandford PD lead investigator and the police chief refused to arrest and file charges. For trying to follow the law — do not arrest and charge without probable cause — one was demoted to patrolman and the other fired.

To carry on the myth that this should have gone to trial with lesser charges is to ignore that the prosecution had no case and it plays right into the hands of the libs and race hustlers and pimps.

GZ will almost certainly sue the lead prosecutor, Angela Corey, for a malicious prosecution and there is a good chance he will win.

Had to laugh at the dustup between the Gov. of Texas and the Gov. of Illinois on CNN this morning…Of course Quinn a liberal got personal at the end…jealousy much Gov. Quinn or maybe it’s your recent smackdown by the Illinois legislature over concealed carry…

“Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Sunday defended his controversial state-to-state business tour, where he’s asked businesses to move to the Lone Star State.

Asked by CNN’s Candy Crowley on “State of the Union” to respond to criticism from Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn who called him “a big talker,” Perry said it wasn’t personal.

“It’s not about him, and it’s not about me. It’s about the business climate in our respective states,” Perry said. “I will suggest the Chicago Bulls come to San Antonio and they’re not about poaching wins, they’re about competing. Sometimes we win and sometimes we lose.”

Quinn, a Democrat, responded that the Chicago Bulls could compete with anybody, as could the Chicago business climate.

“We have in Illinois, well-educated workers/ We’ve been able to attract corporate headquarters from all over the world. We also have a higher minimum wage,” he said. “Texas has one of the worst poverty rates in the county, and they also have a history of industrial accidents that’s unacceptable.”

As for the Republican governor of Texas, Quinn quipped, “We both went to Afghanistan four years ago, I was his roommate. For seven days, I heard him talk about his favorite subject, Rick Perry.”